Monday Night TV Roundup

OK!'s Joyce Eng, Rana Meyer and the TV Fanatic break down Monday night's hottest shows!

How I Met Your Mother: "What a fantabulously realistic

episode! While I love suspending disbelief during X number of minutes for my

favorite shows, I also absolutely adore when storylines ring true to life and

no show does that better than HIMYM. Ted is enamored with his new girlfriend

Cathy (Lindsay Price) and shows him off to his friends over dinner, but none of

them like her and he can't understand why. After realizing their clueless buddy

is stuck in the early stages of romance when everything seems perfect (or as

Marshall puts it: "You're driving the 'I Want to Have Sex with Her' truck,

and it's got a huge blind spot."), the four choose not to highlight

Cathy's flaw, shielding Ted from that glass-shattering moment when the

beautiful illusion is broken. Following incessant prodding, they tell him

what's wrong with her – she talks. A LOT. Like

almost Six-esque. Now that he's clued in, Ted can't let it go and just like

that, the illusion was shattered (cue shattering glass). Now who can't relate to

that? Once you notice irritating qualities in other people, you can't ignore

them. After watching this, I'm literally conscious of what my friends think of

me. Speaking of "literally," overusing the word is Robin's

"glass shattering moment." The buddies eventually turn on each other,

pointing out the annoying habits in one another. Ted corrects people too much;

Lily chews too loudly; and Barney has a trio – talking in a high-pitched voice,

using catchphrases and spacing out during conversations. Marshall, who couldn't

access his bar results because he forgot his password, sings what he does

frequently, which, as everyone learns, is not always useless. It turns out he

turned his password into a song, and it's good news – he's officially a lawyer,

not to mention the most adorable man on the planet with those tunes. Also good

news – Cathy and Ted split. They bump into each other three years later

alongside her deaf fiancé, Daniel. Harkening back to Ted's sign language

skills, he shatters the glass for Daniel. Cue parenthetical shattering glass.

Until next week – get ready for Slap No. 3!" – Joyce

Heroes: "Rewinding back four months in time was the definitely the

best episode that Heroes has done all season. It had so much happening that it

had been hard to figure out what was going on since last year's finale. But

this episode finally put everything in perspective. We have now learned what

happened to poor D.L. And it was all Niki's fault. For a man who could walk

through anything, even an exploding house, he wasn't able to survive

everything. After another one of Niki's personalities took over and ran off to L.A. to party, D.L.

tracked her down, but that would be the end for him. After dragging Niki away

from a sleazy club guy, he wasn't pleased. D.L. was shot by the sleazy guy

right in front of Niki's eyes. Poor girl, no wonder she gave Micah to relatives

and turned herself over to the company to get help. In the meantime, after

Peter exploded and brought his injured brother to the hospital, he was captured

by the company proclaiming that they wanted to help him get rid of his

abilities. But that really wasn't the case. After months of dealing with

electric Elle and flirting up a storm, Peter and his cell neighbor Adam

realized that they needed to escape and save Peter's brother and the rest of the

world. How cool is it that Adam is Kensei from Japan over 400 years ago. He can

live forever, because of his blood that can cure anything. And he doesn't even

age! Now that's the type of power that needs to be brought into the real world.

At the same time, we also discovered that Maya started her killing powers

when her brother married a cheating liar. She ended up killing the bride

and everyone around her. Can you imagine that just by crying,

you would kill everyone around you. Not ever being able to shed

a tear, now that would be a scary power to behold." – Rana

The Bachelor: "Miss Manners would have had a field day with

this episode. These girls look so sweet, but boy are they some catty

wenches! Loved when Chris called out McCarten -- who been labeled the

house bully -- after she insulted half the panel and he asked, “So are you

being forward or a bully right now?” On the hot seat, Hillary and Sheena both

saved face. Bettina, not so much. She blamed Brad for her family date going

sour! Bettina, take note: Your dad is never going to accept another man as long

as your ex-husband lives! Brad came across pretty genuine. Yes, he did tell

Hillary about a thousand times he just wanted to be friends. But just so she

knew for sure, he broke it down for her on tonight’s show. I’m hoping Brad

is the real deal. It would be nice to see one of these Bachelor-created

relationships actually work out! So who has Brad picked? The fun girl never

gets the guy on The Bachelor, so I would say he’s picking DeAnna. But there’s

suppose to be a twist in the final rose ceremony, so maybe Jenni gets the guy

after all…” – TV Fanatic

What did you think of last night's line-up?